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, 1887-02-24

AS has often been asserted the jail.
at Cheney will not holda man II he
once makes up his mind to leave,
and this fact was illustrated BY the
general Jail delivery Saturday night,
or very early Sunday morning, when
flvc prisoners confined on some very
serious charges, and all hailing from
this city, made good their escape.
Besides the fugitives there were
three other prisoners in the crib,
Jimmy Barnes, who is pluckily serv;
ing out the severe fine inflicted
upon h i'm ut the last term Of court,
and two county prisoners whose time
will expire early next month. There
was nothing to prevent their going
escaped were Jas. Smith, Jas. Ahern
and p. n. Coleman, who are charged
with attempt to murder, they being
the men who assaulted Mr.. Roun-
tree. Chas. Garner, the man who
held up a German In this city few
weeks ago and had q finger nearly
amputated by the teeth OF his
victim and by which he was
identified and bound over, and Jacob
Smith, the negro who figured so con-
spcuoilsly in the recent row ut the
California House and who was sent
below oniya few days ago. The crowd
worked without apparently any fear
of detection. They got hold of an
old file i'm some manner and cut Oft II
bolt that held q steel bar over one
of the doors. One end of this bar
was heated in the fire and beaten
and filed down to n point. With 1t
they broke hole through the tioor.
The jail floor is some two feet above
the ground and filed in with rocks.
Enough of these rocks were removed
and piled up in the jail to make II
hole large enough for the men to
crawl through. After gaining the
yard they tied rock to one end of
Il strip OF blanket, threw it over the
top of the high fence where 1t
caught. BY the blanket route they
had no difficulty in shining over
the fence and scattering themselves
ont into the broad world. So far
nothing has been heard from the
crowd, and they will not probably
be heard from unless some friend
receives word by mail in the sweet
bye.and-bve.
, 1887-02-24
GIVE us A REST ON BYLL>.

The present and last session Cf the
iorty-ninth congress has outstripped
ell its predecessors as far as the in
PRODUCTION OF bills Is concerned. At
the first session II 400 bills were in
troduced in the two houses, about
40 per cent. of that number coming
from the lower house. About three
sourths of the bills We're what Is
known as private bills. 1t has cost
il the last year S5O0,0OO to print
these bills. Less than 10 per cent.
OF these bills have ever become laws.
These old chestnuts are fished out Of
pigeon holes and introduced at
every session. The present congress
has done a good business in the bill
lIae, and 1850 bills and joint reso-
iutions have been presented. Like
former bills, more than three-fourths
Of them are Of Il private nature and
y, I'll never become laws, nor did the
men who introduced them ever eX-
pcct that they would pass. Then
ttere is another fashion in vogue,
at.d that is that when man goes
out Of congress his successor is eX-
pected to introduce all the bills that
we're presented by his predecessor.
This is all nonsense and should cease
to he the fashion, for the reason that
ii ere is no sense in it. There should
be limit to this bill business.
, 1887-02-24
WHAT ALASKA WANTS.

The bill to appropriate money for
= wharf and public building at Sltka,
Alaska, is a very beautiful measure.
Providing proper facilities for the
transaction of public business is al
ways wise. AS most of the shipping
to and from this point Is Of public,
or quasi-pullic, nature it is we'll
enough for the government to furn-
ish these facilities. However,
Alaska does not need organization.
With a Judge and the machinery of
Il court, 1t is provided with all the
civil government it needs, by the
act Of congress of 1881. The only
legislation that is now desirable Is
an act making the homestead law
and those relating to the sale of
timber en- government lands appli-
cable to Alaska. Let that be done
and Congress may safely leave our
Russian purchase to take care of
itself, tho only thing necessary be-
;ng for the administration to make
sure that the governor and judge are
honest and competent men and at
tend to their duties. But the United
States officials in Alaska have been
urging upon congress scheme for
the organization of the territory.
Governor Swineford IL now in
Washington advocating bill for
chat purpose, when he ought to be
in Sitka, and the house committee
on territories has considered the
measure favorably. There is no
material there out OF which to or
eanize respectable government.
The white population of the
territory, those who have set
tied and intend to live there,
and who are not rowing miners or
traders, here to- day and gone to.mor-
rcw. is only few hundred or at
anost Thousand. A glance ut the
map will show the extraordinary iso-
iation OF these people, scattered as
they are in villages, trading posts
and mining camps. An election
would be farce. It would take a
whole year to serve the notices of
such an election and another year to
gather the returns and ascertain the
results. Until therefore census
fairly and honestly taken shows an
inteliigent population of our own
Find large enough to wear the
harness OF a territorial government,
no scheme by which Indians and
half-breeds are TO be allowed to vote
should be thought of. A legislative
council or delegate in congress cho-
sen ty such constituency would re-
feet no credit upon the country and
70 place the small industries of Alas.
Ia al the merry Of such body would
he very disastrous. AS long as the
Indians and EsauimauX live in per-
feet peace and contentment among
themselves and with our own people
Il will not he wise to disturb them.
, 1887-02-24

in their graves can sleep the eternal
sleep unvexed by the thought that
at any time they betrayed 1t In their
hearts. God bless the republic Of
the United States.
After the address Ia very fine comic
song was given, entitled "Uncle
joe" when the camp broke up for
refreshments, and as we go to press
the vast multitude are on with the
dance, with everybody having n
grand time.
, 1887-02-24

the states prison, but II he steals
eight or ten thousand acres OF land
you cannot make him give up the
land or send him to prison? 1t does
look as u everything that is rotten
Is not found In Denmark.
, 1887-02-24

l., l.. carr, OF Daggetts Mills, Pa, sayo
he saved the life Of his child with Group
by useing .Gilmore's Magnetic Elixir.
Sold by V. G, Demert,
, 1887-02-24

WHY is it that if a man steals a
hc.-e the law not only makes him
a-ye up the animal but sends him TO
, 1887-02-24

Ladies is life and health worth preser-
wing? II you think so, use GilmoTe's
Aromatic Vino. Sold by V. c. Demert.
, 1887-02-24

ASHLEY BANCROFT,
OF History oi Wash. Ter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
LOCAL GAS COMPANIES.

Commenting on the consolidation of the
two local gas companies, the Sentinel says it
certainly means business and we can con-
ceive of no good reason why the journal
should seek so persstently to discredit the
project" We hope the consolidation does
mean business A few days will decide
whether it is practicable and whether the
capital necessary to pipe gas to the city can
be raised here or not. The Journal hopes it
can be- and most heartily wishes the under
taking success. The intimation that the
Journal has sought to "discredit the project"
is without the slightest foundation. The
Journal did seek to discredit the project of
piping gas by town-meeting and an organiza-
ton based on last years coal bills, and fatters
itself it had something to do with heading
off that scheme. In this connection
we will say the statement, repeatedly
made by the Sentinel and News, that
the new company or any other local company
would accept the terms of the ordinance
passed by the Council is entirely without
foundation. Neither this company nor any
other has the slightest idea of accepting the
ordinance in its present form or in anything
like its present form. The local capital that
proposes to engage in piping gas will ask for
very material notifications in the ordinance
in fact, Just about the notifications that have
been suggested by the Journal. Until those
changes are made company will obligate
themselves to pipe gas to the city, and when
thew are made the ordinance will be as salts
factory to. one company as to another. 1t
should be understood that the stock
holders in the company do not
propose to engage in it from pure philan-
thropc or sentimental motives. They ex-
pect to make money by the operation,
and the idea that the city citizens will fare
better at their hands than they would at the
hands of foreign capital" is as absurd as a
good many other nonsensical ideas that have
recently been put afloat. The Journal is OPP
posed to monopoly of the gas business,
either by local or foreign capital. What is
needed is an ordinance that will invite COM
petition, and perhaps induce race of dill
gence between two companies, as to which
shall reach the city first. Meanwhile, no
time should be lost in pushing the new enter
prise Now that plan of organization has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

A LARGE and spirited meeting was.held in
Brooklyn, N. Y, few nights ago, to pro-
mote the movement for the appointment of
women on the school board. The general
sentiment of the meeting was strongly in
favor of such appointments. Congressman
White caused laugh by saying LAS long
as have the spirit of man / will stand up
for my sex, and 1 must say that all women
are not better fitted for positions in school
boards than some men," This much by way
of defending his sex; but he Immediately
added that women by their opportunities,
fidelity, and executive capacity are eminently
fitted for fair representation in the board of
education in this city"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

A FEW months since some of the New York
papers urged the reduction of fares on street
railways from five to three cents, on the
ground that the companies were making more
money out of the franchises granted them by
the public than was fair. To this the officers
of the companies made reply that they were
really making very little money, and that the
proposed reduction would ruin them Fig
ures protesting to be official statements Of
their business were given, which seemed to
bear out these assertions. At the recent auc-
ton sale Of the franchises by the city, the
bidders who offered from 90 to 80 per cent. of
the gross receipts of the lines were representa-
tives of these same companies, and presuma-
bly, well posted as to what they could afford
to pay and still make a good profit. The
natural inference now is that the former as
sertions as to the condition, of the business
and even the official figures were misleading
not to say fraudulent. 1t may be remarked.
in this connection, that the officers of the
citizens street railway of Indianapolis have
not given any figures as yet but have merely
contented themselves with stating that the
profits of the company were only per cent.
annually, and therefore would not admit of
the employment of conductors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

THE purposely absurd Interpretation put
upon the interstate-commerce law by some
persons, for the purpose of bringing it into
public disrepute and manufacturing feeling
that may result in its repeal, is well shown in
The refusal to give q special rate to the pupils
of the deaf and dumb and blind institutions
10 visit their homes on their annual vacation.
This is a specimen of the way in which the
law has been distorted and contorted by
men who simply advertise their unfitness to
nold any responsible position in connection
with a semi-public trust like railway The
law will not be repealed to please this class of
railway men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SENATOR INGALLS, wears the costest gar
ments that have ever greced the Senate cham
ber
+ SENATOR EDNUNDs melts like an iccle in a
furnace when any one praises his skill at bill
iards.
SENATOR FRYE prides himself on being
Grandfather, though he appears to be hardly
thirty FIVE
eieht-page manuscript of the first Napoleon. It
was part OF history OF corsica, "nicn ne wrote
in 1870.
WALT WHITMAN celebrated his sixty eighth
birthday on May29 The stories of his excessive
povertv are exaggerations He is living COM
fortably. and is in good spirits.
CoNGREssMAN FoRAN, of Cleveland, thinks
his novel, .sThe Other Side" should have gone
off like nicholas Nicklebv," and he frequently
drops bitter romarks about the literary taste of
the period
Hon. r. r. HERRIcK, ex-Mayor OF Cleveland.
Ohio. began life a carpenter, and worked his
way from the bench to wealth and position. He
was a striker but he struck with males and
hammer every time.
The Beecher memorial committee have deter
mined to place the statue of the great preacher
in the Brooklyn City-hall square. The sum
Eeeded for it is $50, 900, of which nearly two
thirds has been secured.
H. RIDER HAGGARD is . slender man with a
fine head and a strong, well-balanced face He
is not much over thirty. He has plenty of time
before him in which to do good work In notion,
if he will but avoid the production OF hurried
and unfinished stories.
A MILAN paper says of Frederick Douglass:
There is at the present time in Rome FEDERICO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

THIS is the way the Muncie Times is i'm
pressed with the business" methods of In
dianapolis
eff the manufacturers and mechanics of In
dianapolis are not likely to accomplish any
thing in the way of supplying the city with
tation to come to Muncie and live. The State
house is new, and it would be expensive to
move it; therefore, leave that. We have a
courthouse that will answer all purposes.
Then, too, the Legislature should meet in
some quiet, secluded spot, where bedlam
might reign supreme, and no one be bothered
with their confusion. Indianapolis IS, there
fore, a good place for the Legislature to meet.
You are too much afraid of foreign capital,
have too many conflicting interests, and you
cannot do better than to come to Muncie with
your muscle and your money. Bring every
thing you have except the state-house, your
City Council and Tom Johnsons bob tail
street-car line. The City Council of Muncie
is satisfactory to us, and our street-car service
is not the kind operated in backwoods cities.
'.The satisfaction, comfort and cheapness
of living in city supplied with natural gas
is not to be calculated in dollars and cents.
Hence we ask you to come here and identify
yourselves with us before you get too jealous.
We can get along without you. it is true. How
ever, we have no disposition to be marrow IN
our views, but extend cordial invitation TO
good citizens of all classes to locate in one of
the best cities in the State. All we ask is
that they leave behind some of the things that
make contentious at home and, especially that,
vshen they get here, they will not attempt to
pipe the city for natural gas-on wind"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE first thing to do before you pipe your nat
ural gas is to get it.-Cincinnati Enquirer
IT is very nearly time for the Anti drink-any-
more-coffee until the price declines Society to
Journal
THE great difference between Chicago and
New York we understand to be that in the
Western metropolis no boarding house inmate
get his dinner except in a dress coat and q
white choker, while here a few boarding houses
exist where a gentleman can dine in his shirt
sleeves and without any cravat at all-New
York Sun.
an interviewer of the Boston Journal that the
consolidation of revenue districts will not result
in the saving of single dollar to the govern
ment If that is the case it will occur to a good
many quiet observers that all this talk about the
great economizing policy of the administration
is just trifie too previous. SO to speak.-Phila-
delphia Press.
THE mugwumps are getting some satisfaction
out of the thought that the Republican news
papers will not be calling them such hard names
in 1888. We think they are mistaken. Tho
policy of the Republican press will be to so fully
expose the can't and hypocrisy of these mug
wumps that independent Republicans of honesty
and convictions will not act with them. Mug
wumpsm and independent Republicanism are
not synonymous. 1t is time to emphasize this
fact.-Denver Republican.
THE record eff the Democratic party is the
last thing which that party will appeal to. 1t
doesn't dare to nominate man for the presi-
1t is compelled to go among those who had no
record of their own before all these issues grow
ing out of the war were settled by the Repub-
lican party. It is a confession by compulson.
The men the Democratic party must look to for
its standard bearers must be those who. when
confronted by the record of their party, can ex-
claim: Thou canst not say did it."-Detroit
Tribune
AS vouminous it is, Mr.. Shermans speech
is mostly taken up with tremendous effort to
renew the hatreds of the war and the prejudces
10 ioA uhn have
credited John Sherman with statesmanike
views have only to read this lively screech in
which he makes effort to conceal his hatred
and intolerance of everything Southern. He re-
wives every lie and every invention that the Re-
publicans have tried in vain to make history of,
and he gloats over them with fresh accessions Of
maevolencs in every paragraph. Perhaps
there is no more disagreeable spectacle in mod
ern politics than that of the corrupter and
briber of the Louisiana returning board trying
to paint a virtuous blush on the brazen cheeks
of the Republican party.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
Strikes and Building Associations.

Il. w. CrlswelI in vi CITY Derrlck.
, A curious effect of strikes and labor troubles
is seen in the building and loan associations in
Ohio, and 1 presume in other States as we'll.
During the past few months money has been
cumulating in these associations until the dis
position of the surplus has become troublesome
problem This accumulation is owing to the
strikes Of carpenters and other mechanics having
put n stop to almost all building operations.
This leaves the building associations without Dor
rowers, and the result is piing mp of useless
money in their treasures hear of many asso-
Citations offering money without premium and
not finding takers. and other associations again
that have reduced their interest to per cent. on
loans, and yet finding but little demand for their
accumulating capital Building associations
have been q great boon to tho iaboriug classes.
especially in Ohio and Indiana, but they cannot
long exist without loaning their money 1T a fair
rate Of interest and securing it by mortgage on
houses and lots Without going into the ques-
ton OF the wisdom of strikes, here is certainly
an instance where they have resulted disas-
trously TO tho persons whom they were intended
to benefit 1t acta two edged sword injur-
ing laboring men in the loss of work and Grip
pling building associations through which they
might secure homes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

IT was supposed that the death of the late
Captain Eads would end the Tehuantepec
ship-railway project, of which he was the
originator. 1t seems not. The stockholders
in the enterprise, twenty-five or thirty of
whom, representing $15, 900, 900 of stock, re-
side at Pittsburg, have determined to con-
tinue the work, and have selected one of
their number Col J alnes b. Andrews, to take
charge of it. He is brother-in-law of the
deceased engineer, and said to- be entirely
competent to carry on the enterprise. The
stockholders have abandoned the idea of ask
ing for government loan, and will prosecute
the work on its merits
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

THE New York World says the prices Sc
cured by the city for street railway fran
chises the other day ''let great food of light
into the public mind" The fact that COM
pany is willing to pay considerable per cent.
of its gross receipts for the franchise shows
that the standard five-cent fare is too high.
1t is now claimed that most, if not all, the
street railroads ought to carry passengers for
at them under their charters. 1t is beginning
to be discovered all around that an IRON
clad street railway charter defended by a we'll
organized City Council is almost impregnable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

"THE Journal will be in less danger of max
ing fool of itself. if it will bear in mind
that the indictments returned by the federal
court grand jury did not relate to the tally
sheet forgeries."
The Sentinel will be in less danger Of
making fool of itself if it will stop lying
so outrageously. 1t knows perfectly well that
the Coy gang is indicted for an offense the
object of which was to "unlawfully alter,
mutilate, forge and change" the tally-sheets.
This is literal quotation from the indict-
ment, and shows that it does very intimately
''relate to the tally-sheet forgeries."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04

teer regiment, and received wound In the
closing hours of the war that rendered him
a cripple for life. He became chief clerk of
the Second Assistants Office in 1872 and was
one of the few officials connected with the
postal contract system that passed through
the ordeal of the famous star route trials
without stain upon his personal or official
character. He is thoroughly competent, and
a model official, but has to give way to a
hungry Democrat from Maryland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
THE INDIAN TERRITORY.

The recent rulings of the Secretary of the
Interior relative to public lands, and the posi-
ton taken by the Attorney general in regard.
to Indian reservations, probably foreshadow
the purpose of the administration to open up
for homestead settlement the immense Of
lands in the Indian Territory. This would
naturally follow the allotment of lands in
severalty to the Indians The Indian Terri
tory is one of the finest sections of country
the continent, and it is not surprising that
anything looking in the direction of opening
it up for homestead settlement should be re-
garded with intense interest by persons desir-
GUS of getting in early. Advices from Vinita,
the principal town in the Indian Territory,
state that within the past two weeks, since
Attorney general Garland gave to the public
the information that the work of allotting
certain Western reservations would commence
authorized the allotment of lands in severalty
to the Pottawatomies and Shawnees, there
has been quite rush by people from the
States coming in, looking up locations for
permanent settlement as further de-
velopments take place. The Indian tribes in
the Territory, commonly called civilized
tribes, own 10, 755, ISL acres of the finest land
in the world. These tribes number 81, 900
persons. If they would consent to an allot-
ment of their lands in severalty at the rate of
160 acres per capita there would still be left
surplus which, even at 81. % per acre, would
make them immensely rich. Whatever policy
the government may adopt relative to these
lands it should deal justly with the Indians.
1t is for the interests of civilization that the
vast tracts, now idle and 'unproductive,
should be opened to settlement, but it should
not be accomplished by robbery or injustice.